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Title Domestic fiction in colonial Australia and New England / edited by Tamara S. Wagner
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 219 pages) : illustrations
Series Gender and genre ; no. 13
Gender and genre ; no. 13.
Contents 1. Retracing domestic space : English national identity in Harriet Martineau's Homes abroad / Lesa Scholl -- 2. 'Hasten to the land of promise' : the influence of emigrant letters on Dickens's life and literature / Diana C. Archibald -- 3. 'Ever so many partings welded together' : serial settlement and Great expectations / Jude Piesse -- 4. 'The heavens were on fire' : incendiarism and the defence of the settler home / Grace Moore -- 5. The 'Australian girl' and the domestic ideal in colonial women's fiction / Michelle J. Smith -- 6. Fugitive homes : multiple migrations in Ethel Turner's fiction / Tamara S. Wagner -- 7. Devout domesticity and extreme Evangelicalism : the unsettled Australian domestic of Maud Jean Franc / Susan K. Martin -- 8. 'That's what children are : nought but leg-ropes' : motherhood in Rosa Praed's Mrs Tregaskiss / Melissa Purdue -- 9. The antipodal house beautiful : Louisa Alice Baker's colonial aesthetic / Kirby-Jane Hallum -- 10. Antipodal home economics : international debt and settler domesticity in Clara Cheeseman's A rolling stone / Philip Steer -- 11. 'What is in the blood will come out' : belonging, expulsion and the New Zealand settler home in Jessie Weston's Ko M©♭ri / Kirstine Moffat
Notes Originally published 2014 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-211) and index
Subject Australian fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
New Zealand fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Australian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
New Zealand fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism
Australian fiction.
Australian fiction -- Women authors.
Domestic fiction, English.
New Zealand fiction.
New Zealand fiction -- Women authors.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Wagner, Tamara S., 1976-
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